# New Server

Jeff Watkins (jwatkins@primuscorp.com)
Wed, 24 Apr 1996 11:31:04 PDT

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    > So therefore my tasks suspend whenever the hell the
    > server feels like it...

    Hm... good point. I hadn't really addressed yet whether
    I want cooper-
    ative or preemtive multitasking. One thought I had was
    to give each object its own thread. Therefore, calling
    a method on object A from object B would put object B
    to sleep waiting for object A to perform the action.
    This might be achieved by providing a special flag like
    'Serialise'. Or something.

    > It has to be reliable, and so does the developer.  I
    > won't adopt any orphan servers.  ColdMUD almost died
    > that way, and it's still on life support.

    An excellent point and one of the prime reasons why I
    want to get interest from external parties before
    really pounding on this sucker. I don't mind doing a
    basic cut at the project without support. After all,
    unless I have something to show, I wont get any support
    for the project. But I'm trying to partition the system
    so I don't wind up in Pavel's position.

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